FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN MORÉAS

The Database of Ornament

                                                                                                “O petites fées .”

                                    O TINY fays with the long gold hair,
                                           You sang, as I slept, with a tender grace ;
                                    O tiny fays with the long gold hair,
                                           In a spell-bound forest, a charmèd place.

                                    In a forest enchanted with spells untold
                          Compassionate gnomes as I slept the while
                  Offer’d me gently a sceptre of gold,
                    A sceptre of gold as I slept the while.

         I know they are dreams and deceits of sleep
            The sceptres of gold and the forest songs ;
        Yet still like a credulous child I weep,
            And my heart for the rest of the woodland longs :
            And I care not now tho’ I know the songs
        Are only the dreams and deceits of sleep.

                                                                        GABRIEL GILLETT.